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“Rock & Roll” (sometimes typed Rock ‘n’ Roll) is a song by The Velvet Underground, originally appearing on their 1970 album Loaded. The song was written by Velvet’s then-leader Lou Reed, who continued to incorporate the song into his own live performances years later as a solo artist. The lyrical content of the song is a celebration to the advent of the Rock and roll musical genre, back in the 1950s, where the singer (Reed) is quoting a female acquaintance of his, named Ginny, who recalls her listening to the radio back at the age of five, being dissatisfied with the musical content when, one day, she tuned to a New York city radio station and “...she couldn’t believe what she heard at all; she started shaking to that fine, fine music: her life was saved by Rock and... Read on...